Kamau Muthoni

Nairobi

A journalist, # AJEA 2020 award winner and first runnersup, # AJEA 2022 award winner and first runnersup... journalist, mama's boy. Tweets are own views.

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Till death do us part: Man battles divorce, defends religious vows

6 days ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

The National Assembly and a woman have asked the High Court to dismiss a case in which a man claims it is illegal for Catholics to divorce under secular law. The man, identified by the initials PKG, is suing the Attorney General, the National Assembly, his estranged wife (identified as MWW), and the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Ex-couple fights over control of K'Osewe empire

1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

There is trouble at Nairobi’s famous K’Osewe Ranalo food restaurant. As the eateries serve visitors and workers alike delicacies such as fish, athola (smoked beef), and fried intestines, their operations are a bitter meal that has split businessman William Osewe Guda and his former wife, Stella Anne Mutheu Osewe. Mutheu has sued Osewe before the Commercial Court in Nairobi.
Kwale Sugar tycoons to pay firm Sh221m after appeal loss

1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

A firm linked to Kwale Sugar Company, Kotecha and Sons Ltd will pay a contractor Sh221 million, after the Court of Appeal threw out its case challenging a 2019 ruling by Justice Thrisper Cherere. Kotecha, who sued alongside its director Hemal Kotecha, had moved to the Court of Appeal, arguing that Justice Cherere did not give them a fair trial in a case filed by Amalo and Company Ltd.
General Ogolla leaves Sh150m to his family, and wishes his relatives good luck

1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

The late General Francis Ogolla's widow Aileen (centre), daughter Lorna Achieng and son Joel Rabuku at the burial in Siaya. [File, StandardThe society owns an African, but not General Francis Omondi Ogolla. The baggage of waiting for weeks in a freezer as relatives mourned and the headache of sharing wealth with the many relatives who were part of his life were not part of the Kenya Defense Forces chief's plan.
EXPLAINED: Why the Supreme Court overturned a 30-year life sentence

1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

The Supreme Court has pointed out a grave inaction by Parliament on a law meant to give prisoners jailed for life a second chance in life. At the same time, the apex court reversed a landmark declaration by the Court of Appeal that a life sentence should be 30 years in two separate cases involving Evans Nyamari Ayako and Julius Kitsao Manyeso.
Supreme court upholds conviction, rejects beauty queen Kamande's abuse defence

1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a landmark case filed by the 2016 Lang’ata Prison women’s beauty contest winner Ruth Kamande, who has been on death row for close to a decade after she was found guilty and convicted of murder. The highest court in the land, in its unanimous judgment on Friday, said her argument that she was a victim of abuse was not raised before then High Court Judge Jessie Lesiit; instead, it came up during her appeal of the conviction and the sentence.
Supreme Court judges Mwilu and Ibrahim win first round against JSC

1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu and Justice Mohamed Ibrahim got a major reprieve in court on Thursday against the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). High Court judge Bahati Mwamuye yesterday threw out an application filed by lawyer Nelson Havi, Ahmednasir Abdullahi’s associates, and Dari Limited, which is linked to former Jubilee Secretary General Raphael Tuju, to strike out the two cases filed by the senior judges.
Boost for Supreme Court judges in case against JSC, lawyers

2 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu and Justice Mohamed Ibrahim have won the first round of the battle against the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), lawyer Nelson Havi, Ahmednasir Abdullahi’s associates and Dari Limited, linked to former Rarieda Member of Parliament Raphael Tuju. Justice Bahati Mwamuye dismissed Havi’s application to strike out the twin cases filed by the two senior judges. Ahmednasir, JSC and Tuju backed Havi’s application.
Cannon Insurance ownership row heads to court

2 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

A court battle over the shareholding of Cannon General Insurance (K) Limited and Cannon Life Assurance (K) Limited has erupted, with a South Africa-based Insurance firm Metropolitan International Holdings Ltd (MIH) being at the heart of the case.
Drunk confession of heinous act with minor hands man 15 years in jail

2 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Kamau Muthoni

If you want to know the raw truth, talk to a drunk man, so they say. This is the story of a casual labourer who, in a drunken stupor, handed himself to the long hand of the law and, subsequently, 15 years to cool his heels behind bars. On March 15, 2021, at Mamba Village, Ndalani, Machakos County, a 16-year-old girl went for an escapade with a casual laborer identified in the court judgment as Francis. The minor said they used to have sex, but she got pregnant on that date.